DC's Podcast Series BATMAN UNBURIED Is Getting a Second Season
DC's scripted podcast series Batman Unburied have been renewed for a second season on Spotify. The news doesn’t come as a surprise as the first season was a huge hit for Spotify as it launched to the top of the charts. I just started listening to it, and so far it’s really good!
The series comes from writer David Goyer, and it stars Winston Duke as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Hasan Minhaj as The Riddler, Gina Rodriguez as Barbara Gordon, Sam Witwer as The Harvester, and Emmy Raver-Lampman as Poison Ivy.
The first, ten-episode season is a psychological thriller and this is the synopsis: “A serial killer known as The Harvester terrorizes Gotham City, but Batman is not coming to the rescue. In fact, Bruce Wayne has no memory of being the Caped Crusader at all. Instead, Bruce is a forensic pathologist, performing the autopsy on the latest victim when he’s attacked by the killer himself. As Bruce’s obsession with the Harvester consumes him, Dr. Thomas Wayne, head of Gotham City Hospital, orders his son to take medical leave and seek treatment from an unusual psychologist, Dr. Hunter. With Batman missing in action, Detective Barbara Gordon is left with no other choice but to seek help from Gotham’s second smartest detective: The Riddler.”
The news of Season 2 was announced at Spotify's "Dive Into The Batman Audio Universe" panel and Duke talked about the series, saying: "It's always been joked that Bruce Wayne's superpower has been white privilege and I had to go through this period of really imagining and setting myself free to find a way in – this man who completely distrusts the justice system so much that he decides to take it into this own hands – this feels a lot more than the diasporic Black experience that I knew.”
There’s no word on when Batman Unburied Season 2 will be released. All they said is that it will be coming soon.